Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 36feedbeb6790717…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.0 KB Created: 2020-08-21 11:46:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: cc2e8c24f0d0a6bfcb974bb0673bc4ee SHA-1: 6b290e2cd19ba2763efed6d079603db73931117a SHA-256: 36feedbeb6790717b2d2fb0af28c259ec19ca0bd7e43836515e29ff38b9bb620
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=pdf+pathophysiology+of+heart+disease'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded links, some of which lead to unknown or potentially malicious domains. The presence of a visual download button lure further supports the malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, but the document body and heuristics indicate a redirection-based attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=pdf+pathophysiology+of+heart+disease In PDF document text
    • http://xumuje.eyeslikemineinc.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383839/galoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.hongkong-entertainment-production.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738975/0c46992a8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5017/1554/files/sifam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/7475/4462/files/adobe_acrobat_reader_download_windows.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9063/2101/files/applications_of_derivatives_maxima_and_minima_problems.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8274/2950/files/wejibotetopupuweduje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2700/4577/files/autocad_electrical_2020_user_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0357/5454/files/pujomojotovod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0461/9835/8165/files/lubozuvuwudozaxevojov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2124/6359/files/koloferav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0700/7127/files/34017863234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2499/6773/files/71514750017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2458/7679/files/android_jetpack_compose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7232/3737/files/lezevuguputolam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000659e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x659E 5088 bytes
SHA-256: c8a3bc02ddbd81cbd66d092ac9c8b3202d445349f46ac8c9ead1ec69b94fdcb8
font_01_sfnt_off0000770a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x770A 9976 bytes
SHA-256: e67d0b364defe02bd4004c0018dbee4d7917bea167a00cc0981f50ebb79ea9ac
font_02_sfnt_off0000992d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x992D 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3